Jilleah Welch
Senior Research Associate and Lecturer
Specialties: Public Finance, Economics of Education, Environmental Economics
Biography
Jilleah Welch is a lecturer and senior research associate for the Howard H. Baker Jr. School of Public Policy and Public Affairs at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she works within the Center for Energy, Transportation, and Environmental Policy. She received her Ph.D. in economics (2015), M.A. in economics (2011), and MBA with a concentration in operations management (2006) from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and industrial engineering (2004) from North Carolina State University.
Welch’s research interests include education policy, public economics, and environmental policy. Her academic research has examined the effects of financial aid programs on college choice and student outcomes. In a variety of funded research projects for various government and funding agencies, she has researched topics that span from electric vehicles to the effect of coal activity on local revenues for education.
Welch has taught courses in economics and public policy, including graduate-level Regional Economics and Tools for Economic Development, as well as undergraduate courses in microeconomics, macroeconomics, and markets, ethics, and capitalism. She also serves as faculty advisor for the student organization Forum on Science Ethics and Policy.
Education
- B.S., Mathematics, North Carolina State University
- B.S., Industrial Engineering, North Carolina State University
- M.B.A., Operations Management, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- M.A., Economics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- Ph.D., Economics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Publications
The Incidence of Financial Aid: How Colleges Respond to Merit Scholarship Programs
The Impact of Coal Activity on Local Revenuesfor Elementary and Secondary Education in Appalachia
Does an Urban Wilderness Promote Gentrification? A Case Study from Knoxville, Tennessee, USA